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This year, there is a slump in the admission of students under the RTE Act. Unlike last year when 7,000 students were admitted in different schools across the city, this year only 4,000 have been admitted by now.

The district administration has taken initiative to ensure proper implementation of the rule reserving 25% seats in private schools for children belonging to economically-backward sections under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

Yet another report has criticized the government for tardy implementation of the right to education (RTE). While the three-year deadline for implementation passed in April, 11% schools are still without toilets, 20% don't have safe drinking water and 74% are without a library

State school education minister Rajendra Darda has issued strict instructions to education officials to focus on improving the quality of education in schools and to conduct quality checks at intervals to monitor the progress.

The state has done poorly as far as implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act is concerned, say educationists. Even after the completion of the three-year deadline set by the Supreme Court for implementation of RTE on April 1, problems persist pertaining to student-teacher ratio, infrastructure, availability of trained teachers, education in mother tongue, etc.

The intensive efforts of the Madurai district administration to enforce the Right To Education (RTE Act) has forced the management of private schools, especially medium-sized private matriculation schools, to look around for students.

The Orissa high court has stayed closure of State Institute of Educational Technology (SIET), an autonomous organization to promote technology in school education. The government had notified the closure on April 29.